Legal Opinion
Dudley Sports Co. v. Schmitt
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided February 22, 1972No. 1170A193PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE AND. FACTS — This is an appeal of a personal injury products liability case (baseball pitching machine) by the defendant-appellant, Dudley Sports Co., Inc., of New York (Dudley), from a jury verdict awarding $35,000.00 to the plaintiffappellee, Lawrence Schmitt (Schmitt).
On March 24,1965, Danville High School (the High School) purchased an automatic baseball pitching machine (the machine), purportedly designed and manufactured by Dudley, from Em-Roe Sporting Goods Company, of Indianapolis, Indiana (Em-Roe). Dudley’s name, “Dudley Automatic Pitching Machine Dudley Sports…
2Cases cited45 opinions
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- Burkhardt v. Armour & Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1932
- Kavanagh v. ButoracIndiana Court of Appeals · 1966
- Hawkins v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1941
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